• A stranger has come
    To share my room in the house not right in the head,
    A girl mad as birds
        
    Bolting the night of the door with her arm her plume.
    Strait in the mazed bed
    She deludes the heaven-proof house with entering clouds
        
    Yet she deludes with walking the nightmarish room,
    At large as the dead,
    Or rides the imagined oceans of the male wards.
        
    She has come possessed
    Who admits the delusive light through the bouncing wall,
    Possessed by the skies
        
        
    She sleeps in the narrow trough yet she walks the dust
    Yet raves at her will
    On the madhouse boards worn thin by my walking tears.
        
    And taken by light in her arms at long and dear last
    I may without fail
    Suffer the first vision that set fire to the stars.